The California Independent system operator extending that flex alert asking people to conserve that energy as you mention through thursday to avoid blackouts and also intermittent outage situation. Thats not what we thought we would find on this block here in milpitas. They said about 139 customers did not have power and when we got here you can see the lights are on this morning and good news for folks on this block but there are sporadic outages we want to tell you about when it comes to pg e across the bay area this morning. The good news, the rolling outages were called off last night by pg e shortly after 8 00 p. M. Because the Energy Supply would meet demand. Thats what the Energy Supplier said. Were learning two big reasons for this. The temps stayed cooler and people did conserve energy. Governor newsom also took some blame for the outages during his monday news conference. Let me just make this crystal clear, we failed to predict and plan these shortages and thats simply unacceptable. The governor did sign an emergency proclamation monday and that allowed those Energy Reserves to be used, but that flex alert is still in effect for today and wednesday. So, it is possible we could see rotating Power Outages on either today or tomorrow. That being wednesday. Now, in san jose, were hearing about 88 active outages are still at play this morning. Affecting about 3,200 customers and you have to imagine if there are kids inside of those homes, distenance learning because you need the power to get the laptops up and running and bad news for anyone looking to work from home this morning. Well keep you up to speed on any outages as theyre reported throughout the morning here. Reporting live in milpitas this morning, im julian glover. Thank you. So much to consider here. The question is, are you prepared for Power Outages . You can use your phone to visit the abc7news app or go to abc7news. Com and it could be as simple as putting a bag of water in the freezer and youll thank yourself later. A key part of building a better bay area is the focus on our health. And the threat of coronavirus. For the first time in two weeks, we saw some movement on the state watch list which means more changes to whats open and white house whats closed. Heres dan ashley. We go from 38 counties to now 32 counties. Reporter lifting the freeze now that the backlog of tests has been cleared. It added five, including Mendocino County but took one off. A county just south of the bay area can think about reopening businesses again. Santa cruz on friday was removed from the list. Reporter the list may see another county drop off in the coming days. Another 6,400 coronavirus cases were reported, well below the sevenday average that spiked as hundreds of thousands of tests held up by a technical problem. The 14day Positivity Rate is now at 6. 5 and hospitalizations dropped below 5,000. The case numbers are high but trending in the right direction. Reporter dan ashley, abc7 news. We are keeping a running tally of the counties that are on the states watch list. We even made this interactive map so you can look at individual counties and see how long they have been on the list. You can find it on abc7news. Com. Your voice, your vote. Night one of the Democratic National convention is in the books. But a speech by former First Lady Michelle Obama still has everyone talking this morning. Abc News Reporter inesde la cuetara has reaction on that. Good morning, kumasi. Democrats showing off their wide range of supporters from liberal Bernie Sanders to some former republicans. Overnight, a Democratic Convention like no other. Former First Lady Michelle Obama giving the key note address like the rest of the dnc virtually. If you think things cannot possibly get worse, trust me, they can and they will if we dont make a change in this election. The former first lady urgently warning we have got to vote for joe biden like our lives depend on it. Reporter democrats challenge to capture the enthusiasm and party unity without a crowd. Headliners included leaders in the fight against covid19. Now we need a leader as good as our people. A leader that appeals to the best in us, not the worst. Reporter to kristen, a woman whose father died from the virus. His only preexisting condition was trusting donald trump and for that he paid with his life. Reporter and they ranged from across the ideological spectrum from selfproclaimed Bernie Sanders. We must come together defeat donald trump and elect joe biden. Reporter to former Ohio Governor and conservative republican john kasich. Im proud of my republican heritage, but what i have witnessed these past four years belies those principles. Reporter three republican women to speak who endorse joe biden for president. Its about a person. Reporter this as President Trump tried to change the channel with some counterprogramming in the key swing states of minnesota and wisconsin. Theyre making speeches that are taped. Who wants to listen to Michelle Obama do a taped speech. No, you have to have her get up there. And joe biden will accept his partys nomination later this week from wilmington, delaware. Republicans will hold their Convention Next week. In washington, ines de la cuetara. Thank you. Special coverage of the Democratic National Convention Starting at 7 00 tonight right here on abc7. Jeopardy and wheel of fortune will not air at their normal times. Abc7 news at 11 00. God bless you. Nasty. Oh, my. Another racist incident caught on camera and now were learning more about what happened. And from Michael Finney College Students who cant pay for their apartment during the pandemic. Before we get to all those stories, though, checking in with mike. Today were still talking about the heat. We really are. The heat, we will get a little bit of a dropoff tomorrow and thursday. Well try to get temperatures closer to average before another surge of heat comes towards the end of the week. I want to focus on the fire up there right now. About 76. The humidity is about 44 . But the environmental winds are calm right now. But look how hot it is going to be. Mid to upper 90s through at least sunday and 101 in napa county near that fire. In fact, lets take a look at the smoke and you can see the hot spots one near reno and l. A. And ill focus on ours because it looks like the prevailing wind will push a lot of that smoke to the east and possibly southeast as we head into the afternoon hours, according to this. Theres also some midlevel winds blowing from southwest to northeast. So, its going to spread more away from us, but enough is going to trickle around that there is a smoke advisory, not a clear the air but a smoke advisory. You will see the haze in the air but most of it in the middle and upper parts of the atmosphere. Our air quality ought to be okay. Temperatures are warm. Low to mid 70s through the trivalley and upper 70s and 78 in antioch and 77 in brentwood. We do have cooler weather. Look at that good sleeping weather in pacifica and 61 in San Francisco and mid to upper 60s in the north bay and mid to upper 60s around the bay and some 70s in the south bay. Dew points still on the edge of being kind of humid. You can see a few 60s out there, but the more we can drop those into the 50s like youre seeing near the coast and San Francisco, which will happen again tomorrow, the more comfortable it is going to be for sleeping. But thats why the coast and San Francisco arent in the excessive heat warning because theyve got the cooler conditions and lighter humidity. For your commute today, the only thing is really the heat. Watch out for that. No thunderstorms today. Lets get a check on the morning commute and guess whos back. Hi, jobina. Hope you had a good monday. I did. Very relaxing monday, thank you, mike. And, yes, what youre saying we need to worry about the heat for the commute, that is still true over here, as well. Not tracking any major blocking issues. Showing 880 at the coliseum camera in oakland. Those headlights are making their way south for reference. And then as we bring in our drive times here, we have green across the board antioch to hercules 25 minutes for that ride. Highway 4 to the maze. It will be 16 minutes and highway 85 to the san jose airport, it will be a sevenminute ride. 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Now you can see we have that air quality for the San Joaquin Valley comes up to our eastern borders of contra costa and you know it just doesnt stop right there. Well keep an eye on that. The excessive heat and the fact that we need to limit our power usage so that all of us who have air conditioning can use it this afternoon. Kumasi. Thank you, mike. Well, today begins the first of three days of victim impact statements of confessed Golden State Killer joseph deangelo. Three dozen victims and family members of those murdered will confront deangelo. On friday hell be sentenced to life in prison. Deangelo pleaded guilty in june to 13 counts of murder and admitted to dozens of rapes that were just too old to prosecute. The 74yearold former Police Officer admitted to 161 Crimes Involving 48 people and a spree that really terrorized california for more than a decade. Now to that caught on camera moment that so many of you are watching right now on abc7news. Com. A San Francisco man speaking out about a womans racist rant towards him and mexicans. Nasty mexican dog. God bless you, lady. So, Stanley Gonzalez recorded this video on sunday along with, he was along the San Francisco daly city border. He said this exchange started when he noticed this woman was making racist remarks to a latino man walking his dog. She turned around and started screaming racial slurs. Oh, your dog looks like you. A mexican dog. I felt like it was my duty. Something just snapped. I had to defend this man. So, thevice mayor of daly city condemned this incident and issued a statement. And our communities will not tolerate this type of behavior. It is unacceptable. So, if youre dealing with any kind of issues of race or social justice, we want to help you find an ally. Just go to abc7news. Com takeaction for a list of local resources. Students and families across the country are looking for ways to pay for College Apartments that no one will be occupying. Many of them find themselves stuck in these longterm leases before they sign them. The pandemic, they signed them well before the pandemic, they say. 7 on your side michael finny hay this. Reporter check out his playlist on spotify. A nice distraction of the stresses of the coming school year. No plan to move back into his apartment since his classes will now be online. Im just waiting to see what actions the landlord takes against me. Railroad eduard si reporter eduard signed assuming he was going to split the rent with four other room mates. These near empty streets would normally be filled with returning students. By the end of the year, edward expects to owe 60,000 in back rent he says he wont have. State senator scott wiener says more needs to be done to help these families. California is not doing enough to address the realities of what people are facing, whether its renters and whether it is small businesses. Reporter edward says his landlord is refusing to negotiate the lease. We reached out to Landmark Properties and it says it is complying with the law and trying to find new tenants to take over edwards lease. Edward says if he cant settle t with his landlord, he will be left with one option. Worsecase scenario, i would have to declare bankruptcy. Were going to see huge economic ramification. 7 on your side. All right. Lets take a look at what is going on as far as our weather. Start with the satellite. This is the water vapor. Where you see the orange is dry air and the brighter, whiter tops, that is moisture. Thats humidity and notice we have some of that right over top of us and more so over the ocean. Now, the high clouds are going to be a little bit thinner today and that will allow more sunshine through. And thats why its going to be a little bit hotter in most areas and the thunderstorm threat has moved away temporarily but next monday and tuesday, it could come back as hurricane genevieve. Lets talk about what is going to happen today. Start down in the south bay. High clouds and haze and temperatures from 92 in sunnyvale and 94 in gilroy and san jose at 96. You head up the peninsula and start in the low to mid 90s and drop down to the mid and upper 80s by the time we get to san a mateo and millbrae. 80s, low 80s in Downtown South San Francisco to mid 80s in sausalito. Well have mid 70s in the north bay and this may be the last day you have total sunshine along the north bay coast and thats a sign of some changes coming. And look at these temperatures inland. The biggest jump today because of the thunderstorms yesterday. It actually kept your temperatures down a little bit. Along the east bay 81 in richmond and oakland 85 and 90s around Castro Valley and union city and fremont. Hottest temperatures 101 to 107 in our east bay valleys. Tonight see some of the 50s along the coast to barely 50 in San Francisco and low 60s around oakland. You can see the marine layer trying to develop and that will make it feel a little bit better. Thursday morning will be our best morning for sleeping. It will be our coolest morning and also our coolest afternoon as we try to break the heat wave for one day and then look at that friday through sunday, it comes back. And gets oppressively hot and humid with the chance of thunderstorms monday. What to you think about that . Another chance of thunderstorms, kumasi. Thats unusual. We have it once, twice . Three times . I thought it was like a phenomenon. But you know im from florida, im used to thunderstorms every afternoon. So, its kind of like it reminds me of home in a really weird way. All this is for you . Im kidding. Dont blame me. All right, thank you, mike. San francisco restaurant that put up these dining bubbles. Remember i told you about this. To accommodate outdoor meals. Well, they hetake domes removed because they didnt have ventilation. The restaurant set up these enclosures on the sidewalk location outside of fifth and mission streets where that restaurant is. And the area is frequented by people experiencing homelessness and some critics call these domes antihomeless. Still offering outdoor dinings, but you will have to enjoy without those domes. New developments this morning with gap. The chronicle is reporting that it is closing its main store in union square because of the pandemic. The store at the Embarcadero Center are also closing for go. The only gap store still open in the city is on chestnut street. Coming up next, your brain during covid. A local scientist said some of what is happening could be good for us. A group of local bakers using their skills to join the fight for racial justice. In todays tech bytes, a new measure of covid impact. Yelp sites more than 100,000 businesses have permanently closed since march 1st. Because all businesses arent on yelp, the actual number is actually higher. Microsoft has some competition. Bloomberg reports oracle is also interested in purchasing tiktok. Vowed to shut down the chineseowned app if the u. S. Asset is not sold. Expressed interest in buying tiktok before the president s executive order. A recordsetting launch in florida this morning. A spacex rocket is scheduled to take dozens of satellites into space. They hope to retrieve that booster so it could possibly right now, we could all use some comforting words, so here it goes melty, melty, tasty, grilly, juicy, sizzle. Mmm, that should feel better. The sourdough patty melt is back. Make it a combo meal for just 5. 99. Melty, melty. And packed with my toasted sourdough bread. Freshly grilled onions, 100 beef. And two slices of melted cheese. All that with fries and a drink for only 5. 99 . Woah, is there an echo in here . Get my sourdough patty melt combo, back on my menu for 5. 99. Were back and were going to talk about air quality. Not a spare the air, but advisory because of the smoke in the upper and middle part of the atmosphere. If youre joining us, just a reminder that San Francisco and the coast not in the excessive heat warning. The rest of us are through 9 00 wednesday evening. So, tomorrow night. Look at the temperatures tomorrow. 72 in San Francisco and still a few 100s around cloverdale and fairfield. Look at this, this is our milder day but were still above average from 72 in San Francisco to upper 90s inland and you can see the 100s and heat starting to march west, once again, friday. All right, thank you, mike. Your health is one of the key areas that we are focused on as we work to build a better bay area. A stanford scientist is looking at the impact of the pandemic on our brains. Neuro scientist says the disruption to our routines challenges our brains to adapt. In a new book, he explains how the structure of the human brain has almost 86 billion neurons to respond to changes. We are doing things that are new for the brain and that we are trying things out that we never did before and maybe, you know, never had the opportunity to do before and now were forced into it. So, theres two sides to this. While our brains are adapting to these frequent changes, they may be hampered by isolation from working from home and the lack of interacting with family and friends. A group of bakers rising to the occasion to raise money for the black lives matter movement. Many arent able to attend local protests but they want to do their part. More than 25 bakers in the bay area are part of baking for black lives matter. If you donate to blmrelated organizations you can give theme theaaspter rais just over 9,500. Its really amazing to be such a part of a large, Important Movement in our countrys history. Sometimes it feels really insignificant compared to this huge, huge problem of such a deep, systemic racism. But it feels good to be doing what i can. Everybody can make a difference. Theres also baking for black lives matter and a chapter in michigan, as well. Thats cool to see. Now, i want a cupcake. Coming up next at 5 00, the bankrupt company that appears to be making a comeback. Also, an update on the south bay teacher who apparently logged on for work without a shirt on. The email that parents say he later sent to students. Plus, a health alert. The Infectious Disease discovered in california for the first time in five years. And geico loves helping riders get to where theyre going, so to help even more, geico is giving new and current customers a fifteen percent credit on their motorcycle policies with the geico giveback. And because were committed for the long haul, the credit lasts your full policy term. The geico giveback. Helping riders focus on the road ahead. Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future, this is abc7 news. When the fire comes down the hill, if it does, that were ready to protect these houses. Now at 5 00, Evacuations Ordered as a fire burns in wine country. But some people are preparing to do everything but leave. Another day of excessive heat
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